Rail-joint.



PATENTED JAN. 15, 1907.

L. M. S ARTAIN. RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED SBPT,8.1966.

W1 TNESSES INVENTOR.

A TTORNE Y5 UNITED sTA as PATENT orrroa.

LOUIS MARTAIN SARTAIN, OF TRACY CITY, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM P. STONE, OF TRACY CITY, TENNESSEE.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 15, 1907.

Application filed September 8, 1906. Serial No. 333,860.

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Louis MARTAIN SAR- TAIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tracy City, in the county of Grundy and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Rail-Joint, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to rail-joints; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the parts as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a joint especially adapted to be used for con necting the ends of track-rails. The said joint does away with the necessity of fishplates and bolts and retains the track-rails in proper alinement with each other and also operates as a chair for the same to prevent lateral tilt. At the same time the bases of the rails rest upon the tie, and thus the track is not deprived of the resiliency possessed by the cross-ties.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the rail-joint applied to the rails. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the end portions of the rails, showing the extreme ends thereof in section.

The rail-joint comprises the cross-web 1, the upper end of which is of the same contour as the heads of the rails 2 2. The upper end of the web 1 is in alinement with the said rails 2 2. The side flanges 3 3 of the railjoint bear laterally against the sides of the rails 2 2. The flanges 4 4 extend laterally from the lower edges of the flanges 3 3 and lie over the flanges of the rails 2 2. The outer edges of the flanges 4 4 are provided with the recesses 5 5, which are adapted to receive the edges of the heads of the securingspikes 6 6. The under surfaces of the outer ends of the flanges 4 4 are flush with the under surfaces of the bases of the rails 2 2. Consequently the said rails rest upon the crossties 7. The inner ends of the said rails 2 2 are preferably chamfered, as at 8, see Fig. 3, and said chamfered ends bear against corresponding bevel side edges 9 of the cross-web 1. It will thus be seen that the extreme ends of the rails 2 2 are supported and that the upper edges of the flanges 3 support the heads of the adjacent rails for some distance back from the cross-web 1 and that the rails are retained against any inclination to lateral tilt by reason of the fact that the inner surfaces of the flanges 8 3 and the inner under surfaces of the flanges 4 4 bear directly against the sides of the rails and the tops of the base-flanges thereof.

All parts of the rail-joint are integral and constitute a single forging. The said forging is imperforated, and the spike-head recesses prevent the oint from moving transversely of the tie.

Having thus described my invention, .What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A rail-joint comprising a transversely-extending web having beveled rail-meeting sides, flanges located at the vertical sides of said web and being spaced apart for the reception of track-rails, laterally-extending flanges located at the lower edges of the first said flanges, and track-rails having chamfered ends abutting against the beveled sides of said web.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS MARTAIN SARTAIN.

WVitnesses:

W. P. STONE, J. W. STEPP. 

